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I thank you for furnishing me with argument to meet the doctors who pack up the five senses in thirty-five parcels of the brain.
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Josiah Quincy
Federalist · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Quincy thanks someone for providing him with arguments against certain medical theories.

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